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how one percent changes everything
How do you make career bliss actually happen? You’re busy enough as it is. Right? Work practically owns your ass. There’s social media, emails to return or write, worrying that things will be worse than they are now and creating strategies for what you should do if they do get worse. And then there is…
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what is bliss? defined as poetry.
Bliss is you. Inspired. Creating the life of your dreams. On purpose. The recipe? Clearly set intention. Brutal kindness. Mad, mad, mad … LOVE. … and truth. Being genuine. This is “the” magic. Connected. Deeply. To what truly matters. You matter to you. Sharing generously with the world. Distractions are filtered out. Out, out, I…
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my top secret tips for writing thank-you notes that make you feel all sparkly inside + at peace with however life goes
The thank you note: the grand flourish that indicates your genuine interest in pursuing your candidacy for a job. Let’s set the scene first: The interview was magic and you’d really love to move things to the next level … … but you don’t want to sound creepy, clingy, cheesy. Right? I understand. When something…
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the one thing you can stop telling yourself to unblock career bliss
We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world so that we know what to do. As a collection, they helped us to create the path to now. They’re supposed to make things feel easier. Except when they don’t. And when they don’t, they need to be re-visited. Take for example, this painfully popular…
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what’s after your ‘happily ever after’ (exactly)?
Fairy tales end with the flourish: ‘happily ever after.’ And while that sounds like a nice way to live, most people I know are actually afraid of living ‘happily ever after.’ Here’s why: ‘Happily ever after’ sounds like a boring existence because in the fairy tale, that’s where the story ends. It’s everything before those…
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play with and in your career (plus a personal update)
I write about career bliss. You know that. Especially if we’ve kept in touch for a little while via my posts. But I think that you also know that I don’t write about career as being separate from life. Career and life go together and are together for best results at feeling alive. I believe…
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what does your soul want for you?
It’s common to watch someone else and wonder about their behavior. I mean, sometimes people seem awfully strange – especially at work. Right? And so, as a fellow human being you find yourself wondering or (better yet) making up stories for why they are doing what they are doing. Amusing, I know. I used to…
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clues in quotes for career bliss
I know and you know that not everyone thinks that career bliss is real nor possible. And in your own pursuits, you’ll feel knocked by the expectations and limitations that others place on themselves. The deal in this dynamic is this: If I can’t do it/see it/have it [it = career bliss] – then really,…
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create job bliss by asking the right questions
Questions are powerful things when asked in the genuine spirit of curiosity. And curiosity is what will lead you straight to job bliss. Especially in an interview situation (and dating too … because really they’re not so different when you think about it). It’s because you get to see things for what they are, as…
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how to ask for someone’s time … in an interesting way
It takes courage to ask someone for their time. Setting up that phone call, lunch or coffee date with someone that you may or may not know, to talk about something important to you in a productive and focused way, is no small thing. (Especially when it comes to your dream job.) And in case…